Alas! I sigh with languor
Over the one who wandered from the way.
Far-off the wilderness path
Wounded my innermost feelings.
The house no longer has a master
Transparent curtains in the alcove.
The face equally adorned
In the bright mirror shines forth.
Ornaments of the multiple reflections
The pearls gleam, brilliant.
So many thoughts assail me
Who is seen honored there?
Su Hui (4th century) China
Translated by Jody Gladding
Over the one who wandered from the way.
Far-off the wilderness path
Wounded my innermost feelings.
The house no longer has a master
Transparent curtains in the alcove.
The face equally adorned
In the bright mirror shines forth.
Ornaments of the multiple reflections
The pearls gleam, brilliant.
So many thoughts assail me
Who is seen honored there?
Su Hui (4th century) China
Translated by Jody Gladding
Source: Bomb Magazine, Spring 2017
From: Wild Geese Returning: Chinese Reversible Poems (New York Review Books and The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2017), edited by Michèle Métail
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